Why we are here.
Before we were here-kind of. The fall was dramatized!
If fire burned in squares every year.
“Grouped” ecosystems map-long ago.
But you said…
A little about fire severity.
In summary
Ecosystem conversion for the lower 48.
Three stories.
WUI! Change since 1990. From Radeloff et al., 2018.
What’s being done?
See https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-priorities/protect-water-and-land/land-and-water-stories/why-we-work-with-fire/ for examples
Historically the most fire occurred in the plains and southeast.
A look at historical fire regimes applied to modern undeveloped lands.
Map of developed and undeveloped lands.
We hope to complete and refine this dashboard to be used by the conservation community to help set the stage for conversations about fire management.
This dashboard needs (at the least):